The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-06-15
MOntpelier and Vicinity.

Montpelier ana vicinity.
THE band concert this week will be given
on the Pavilion lawn Thursday evening.
MORTON MARVIN and N. w. Frnk left on
Tuesday for Kansas City on business trip. |
GEORGE E. TAPLIN is building dwelling
house just east of the residence of F. II.
Bascom.
JOHN NJ. STEARNs, Esq. and daughter, of
Brooklyn, N. Y, were at the Pavilion on
Monday.
III. c. HOLMES meat-cart was badly de-
moIished Thursday by being backed over
high bank near First avenue.
BARNUM's great show will visit Mont
pelier July 3Oth, and the Nicholas meadow
has been engaged for the occasion.
J. w. BROCK has sold his coal business to
F. r. Stevens who has recently disposed of
his beer-bottling interests to Woodsville,
n. H., firm
GEORGE w. WING, Esq, f. H. Bascom,
Rev. H. F. Hill and c. H. Heaton were in
Burlington yesterday attending Masonic
anniversary exercises.
THE Church of the Messiah will this
evening be the scene of the marriage of
Hattie E., daughter of Dennis Lane and
Thomas S. Brophy of Montreal.
The local st. Jean Baptiste Society will
participate in the celebration at Burlington
June oath, and it is probable that the Mont
peier Military Band will accompany them.
FOURTEEN young people, seven each, went
to Berlin pond Thursday for fish-fry,
making their meal on "speckled beauties "
caught for them the previous day by Joe
Yatter.
ABRAHAM LONG has taken possession of
the boot and shoe store recently purchased
by him of w. S. French, and has some an
nouncements of interest in the business
locals this week
The annual prize-speaking at the Vermont
Methodist Seminary occurs this evening at
half-past seven o'clock, and the exercises of
the graduating class begin at half-past nine
o'clock tomorrow forenoon.
EXERCISES appropriate to the graduation
of the class of 'S7 of Washington County
Grammar School will be held in Blanchard
Opera-house Friday evening of the present
LEWIS WAKEFIELD on Saturday per-
formed the difficult operation Of removing
ten-pound tumor from the chest of horse
owned by George S. Herrick of Middlesex.
Lewis and the horse are both doing WE'LL
REV. E. A. BISHOP has accepted an invi-
tation to serve as one of the examining
board at Wesleyan University the present
month. Upon his return he will at once go
into camp at Highgate Springs with his
family.
The Montpelier baseball team will "cross
bats " with the Norwich University nine in
this place on Saturday at three o'clock on
the Seminary campus Men will be charged
a small admittance fee; ladies are cordially
invited to witness the game.
IRVING EMERSON of Hartford, CT, form
erly of Montpelier, and Mary K. Young will
be united in marriage at Christ church in
the former city on Monday, June 9th.
Friends of the groom in this place are many
and congratulations at the proper time will
be hardly less numerous.
DUNCAN CLARK's FEMALE MINsTRELs will
give one of their pleasing entertainments in
vocal and instrumental music at the Blanch-
ard Opera-house Tuesday evening, June
21st, and at the Barre Opera-house Wednes-
day evening, June 22d. Tickets may be
obtained at the usual places
THE union young peoples prayer-meeting
announced to be held in Bethany chapel
Friday evening, will begin at quarter be-
fore seven o'clock this week, instead of at
the hour first announced, so as not to con-
tiict with the exercises of the graduating
class of Washington County Grammar
School.
COMMENCING next Sunday Rev. Mr..
Wright will preach at the Church of the
Messiah a series of sermons upon different
topics, with the object of setting forth Uni
tartan views of the Bible and some of its
more important teachings. Sunday even
ing services are to be omitted in the church
through the summer months.
Mrs. III. G.. DEwING and little daughter
Bertha, who have been stopping at Duxbury
since Harry's departure for Boston, went
last Saturday to join him. They ara to re-
side at 81 Marshall street, Winter Hill
Somervilie, one of the most beautiful
suburbs Of Boston. Harry reports that he
is well pleased with his change of location.
THE present is the closing week of the
year for Randolph Normal School, and the
exercises for the remainder Of the week in.
clude meeting of the alumni association
, with an address by Professor e. II. Ruggles OF
Dartmouth at eight o'clock this evening
oral examinations tomorrow and the grad
uating exercises at half-past nine O'Clock
Friday morning.
ANNIE BEss, little daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Orville Dewey, died at her home on
Seminary Hill on Wednesday last of blood
poisoning. The disease was caused by al
, abscess on the knee, which resulted from a
fall sustained by the child some three years
since, and by reason of which she has ever
since been disabled. She was laid to rest
in Green Mount cemetery on Friday.
COMPANY II appeared for the annual june
! drill Friday with thirty-three regularly en-
, listed men. Most of the examination in the